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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) \u2014 A Slovak court has dismissed a lawsuit by the acting Czech prime minister, Andrej Babis, against claims that he collaborated with Czechoslovakia\u2019s communist-era secret police, officials said Tuesday.<\/span><\/div>\n
The Slovak-born Babis was suing Slovakia\u2019s Institute of the Nation\u2019s Memory, which holds parts of his secret-police files because Czechoslovakia divided into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993.<\/p>\n

Some of the files had been destroyed but the institute said 12 of them that survived contain evidence that Babis was an agent under a code name \u201cBures.\u201d<\/p>\n

Babis denies that, and Slovak courts previously ruled that there was no proof for the allegation.<\/p>\n

But Slovakia\u2019s Constitutional Court ordered Bratislava\u2019s regional court last year to look again at the case, at the institute\u2019s request.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The Constitutional Court said there are doubts about the trustworthiness of the witnesses on whose testimonies the previous verdicts were based because they were former secret police officials. The court also cited procedural mistakes.<\/div>\n

The verdict in the case is final.<\/p>\n

In response to the verdict, Babis said Tuesday that his lawyers are considering what further steps to take.<\/p>\n

Babis\u2019 centrist ANO (YES) movement won October\u2019s general election in the Czech Republic but his minority government failed to win a mandatory confidence vote in Parliament last month and had to resign.<\/p>\n

Czech President Milos Zeman has asked Babis to try again to form a new government. His office said on Tuesday that the court\u2019s ruling will not change Zeman\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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